Uncharted 3 Beta Launches Today

Jim Hargreaves 108 Comments

It’s almost time to expose your exotic belt buckles and reminisce on barmaids in Lima as Naughty Dog prepare to launch the first beta stage for the upcoming Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.

Though the previous title in the series, Among Thieves, also featured multiplayer, it was largely overlooked, even after the game garnered dozens of GOTY awards back in 2009.

Stripping the flawless cinematic gunplay and set-pieces from the campaign, Uncharted 2’s multiplayer was an absolute blast, supported post-launch with two unconventionally-priced map packs and character skins.

This year Naughty Dog is building on the multiplayer experience, hoping to drive it between 2011’s hot contenders Battlfield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Here’s everything you need to know about the beta, from launch times and game modes, to level caps and rewards.

  • The Uncharted 3 beta launches today, June 28th, and will be exclusive to both PlayStation Plus subscribers and those who pre-ordered inFamous 2.
  • The beta will enter its second stage come July 4th, being available to anyone with access to the PlayStation Store.
  • The beta will close on Wednesday, July 13th.
  • If you want an exact launch time for the beta in your timezone, refer to this schedule.
  • Three maps and eight game modes will be available over the duration of the beta.
  • 8 Boosters, 4 Power Plays, and 4 Kickbacks are enabled during the beta.
  • The estimated download size of the beta file is 1.7GB.
  • Not only will the beta include competitive multiplayer, three co-operative modes including Arena, Hunter, and Adventure will also be made available.
  • Stereoscopic 3D is enabled for you fancy lot out there.
  • Four basic character models will be available to play as, though there are dozens of customisation options to tamper with.
  • Split-screen co-op will also feature in the beta, allowing you to track your Facebook friends too.
  • 25 is the current beta level cap. This will not carry over into the retail version of the game, though performing specific in-game actions will unlock Uncharted 3 unlockables including exclusive decals, and avatar, and even bonus cash.

Haven’t got anyone to play with? Firstly, ha ha. Secondly, get yourself over to the TSA Meets section of the website and sign up for one of our many community-organise in-game events.

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108 Comments

  1. 8 minutes to end downloading…. AHHHH CAN’T WAIT!!!
    I’ve been trying to avoid the beta and be negative about the game (The first one is my favourite all time game, the second one is one of my most hated games (still better than FarCry2…))…
    I just hope it’s better than Among Thieves….

    • Don’t get too excited! Servers are getting hammered and throwing up an error :(

      • Just noticed…
        Now I won’t sleep ’til I play the game…
        And I still can’t wait…

      • I was in for a couple of minutes, checking the costumization options. Couldn’t change the default MP (not in story mode) character’s hair, though…

      • I’m in again…
        Unfortunately you can’t create private matches so I have to wait for someone to show… which is hard considering everyone is getting the server error…

      • I’m in the beta now aswell, looking for team deathmatch games as i thought that would be most popular, yet i’ve found no one

      • Tell me your PSN ID so I can add you so we can play coop (better than nothing :))

      • Vlash127, surely we can’t be the only two in the beta :P

    • Whats so bad about un2? The storys not as good but its still the second best on ps3.

      • It’s just that it gets various very very small things wrong (mirrored cover animations, the fact that drake’s hand to hand combat combos appear more deadly (never imagined he’d kill if he didn’t have to), there’s a glitch when you reload your rifle aiming with your left hand, Drake’s shirt wrikles no longer move).
        Yes, it’s a great game. Nearly as good as the first, but I hate it because it could have been perfect. Still had lots of fun going through it the first 6 times in the first couple of weeks…

  2. Single player please.

    Think I’ll actually just buy Tomb Raider HD instead.

    • My trolldar is going mental.

      • For why? I love the single player aspect of uncharted. The story is great and very involving. Multi player not. Seine when does voicing an opinion constitute trolling?

      • Since even!

      • But you know the single player is going to be amazing regardless of what they put out in a beta. Just seems you’re spitting your dummy out a bit because you didn’t get what you wanted.
        Saying you’re going to get Tomb Raider instead of Uncharted 3 because of content of the beta is a bit silly.

      • It’s kind of like me playing the Killzone 3 multiplayer beta and saying

        Single player please.

        Think I’ll actually just buy Duke Nukem Forever instead.

      • Whatever dude. Sorry I should have been more eloquent than I was.

        Dear Naughty Dog, please release a single player beta so I can be suitably dumbstruck, and also because I prefer single to multi player.

        Dear CrawFAIL, caller of Troll: Please keep your opinion to yourself as I’m obviously not allowed to have mine. Oh and calling Troll it’s more annoying than an actual troll.

      • And I was only talking about picking up Tomb Raider to tide me over in lieu of the Uncharted Beta. Apologies if that wasn’t specific enough, I was rather inebriated when I staggered in last night. I do rather like Tomb Raider and Uncharted both, for the single player experience only. I do hope they don’t try to show horn multi player into three new Tomb Raider episode!

      • *shoe. Damn this swype predictive text and my long sightedness.

      • “Dear CrawFAIL,” Now you’re definitely trolling.

      • I guess it takes one to know one.

        Can’t beat some nippy jobsworth to really put one off bothering to post at all.

      • How am I a troll exactly?

      • Forget it. Say what you want. Arguing here is pretty sad. I was just calling you out for trolling (which you were). People (people here)on twitter agreed when I featured your comment as my Stupid Commet of the Day.

        Laters.

      • To quote “Whatever dude. Sorry I should have been more eloquent than I was.”

        There was no trolling intentionally implied & if you can’t understand that, that’s your problem. I couldn’t care less whatever your Tw@tter says.

      • Actually, f*ck this. Are you seriously telling me that you run a Twitter highlighting people’s comments of the day? REALLY? Sooooo essentially, what you’re telling me is that you contribute ABSOLUTELY NOTHING positive to the”scene” other than pulling other people up? Baaaaaaaalllllls, I’m such a bl**dy idiot for even falling for this whole shenanigans. Never mind Mr Fail, how about I just call you Mr Daily Mail, News of the World, LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.

        I’m actually more annoyed at myself now than you. Sigh, I thought I’d left the scum from the bottom of my shoe back in SMALL-MINDED_VILLE. Go back to Facebook, there’s nothing to see here.

      • No, read my comment again. “when I featured your comment as my Stupid Commet of the Day.” I didn’t put “I run a Twitter account outing every nob who puts a stupid comment”. I’ve got enough on my twitter plate running my own and the nuTSAck podcast twitter accounts (the community podcast here on TSA which has just hit episode 21, but of course you already know that because you contribute so much yourself) so yes, I contribute absolutely nothing to TSA, between that and 1100 posts in the forums.

        For what it’s worth, I do the same when someone I see posts and comments that are totally asinine and deplorable not just from here, but from other sites I visit, gaming related or not.
        We’ve cleared up you didn’t intend to troll with your original comment, but now you’re being an outright nob, calling me names, implying I’m ‘lowest common denominator’.

        Not cool.

      • You are right, I’m sorry. I overstepped the mark.
        I don’t post often as I’m continually sickened by people’s responses, much the same reason I don’t particularly enjoy multi player our podasts for that matter – but everybody is different and entitled to their own opinion and pleasures.
        That said -I’m not surprised your post count it’s so high if you call troll every two minutes! Joking.
        Truce?

      • *shakes hand*
        :)

      • Cheers bud. Have a pint on me next time! ;)

    • I have to agree with crawfail that your original comment did sound like a troll. Even if you did’t mean it to sound like that, it was a preety stupid thing to say

      • Thank you David, my original post did come over very stupid. I agree.
        I did think I’d try to explain that with my somewhat more sober posts afterwards, but Mr CF completely failed to acknowledge that.
        I don’t make a point of going out of my way to upset people, simply voicing my own opinion (which surely everybody has & debate leads way to better things?) & I kinda thought that given I’ve been around on this forum for so long might have given creedence to tis, but I appear to be wrong.
        Popularity contests seem to lead the way.

  3. Got in and tried to play a match, after about 10 minutes of it hanging on the ‘voting ends in 1’ display, the game was horribly laggy until I eventually quit. However, it seems really nice and although it was lagging it seems really fun. Hopefully it’ll be better by tomorrow and I can hop on after work.

    • Just half finished a game of co-op, sadly my ps3 froze near the end, 3rd time its froze while playing the game, hardly freezes any other time, so it may be Uncharted, but it may just be my ps3, didn’t experience any lag with who i was playing with.

      • Don’t think it’s your machine, just had two crashes myself and my PS3 crashed last time with Oblivion some years ago… and the game just was extreme laggy. They got it working better last time, Uncharted 2 beta was working fine for me from day one… let’s see…

  4. A very interrupted gaming session tonight.

    Lots of potential though, lots of fun.

  5. TheSixthAxis does not tolerate homophobic language, thanks – cb

    • I think you’ll find it’s a bug in the uc3 beta, not the playstation. Whenever mine freezes, it’s the same games, or web pages, when freezing does occur.

    • Comment edited for quoting the above – cb

    • Nice trollin’

      • Can’t someone block these trolls?

      • Yes, they’re asleep or working at the mo. they have been notified though.

    • Please do go away as we don’t like trolls here. I have reported you to Colossal Blue and two other mods. If you hate the PS3 then why do you own it then?O-o Can you please take a look at the TSA commenting policy before posting.

    • poof!

  6. downloaded really fast and got connected straight away. pretty impressed so far. there’s been a few glitches (i dropped accidently grenade and it killed me but then wouldn’t let me respawn, and there’s a lot of random pieces of buildings floating in the air etc.)

    • Enjoyed what i had a chance to play, inbetween freezing. Had to turn tv colour by 10. In character selection, scully looks a little weird, at least to what we’re used to. I hope he doesn’t look like that in campaign(by release,) as the difference is not good.

      • not meant as a reply.)
        Had to turn tv colour *down by 10, next time i’ll try colour temp at cool. imo uc3 mp colour, is extremely over saturated. A big reduction to initial connection time, compared to uc2.

  7. I can’t see it in my PS+ and I’m in England :(

    • It’s there m8, p+ section in eu store.

    • or go to latest, should be the latest thing there :D

  8. It seems to be working this morning! And so far I havn’t had and lag or dc’s.

    The beta really is amazing, its such a improvement on uncharted 2.

  9. I shall be downloading this soon and playing when i get home from volunteering. I swear if i see Situtiaonal awareness on steriods, people will be hurt or i’ll just avoid the mutliplayer aspect of UC3.

  10. looks like it could be cool.
    haven’t played the beta much because the invert aim option is totally non functional.
    i know it’s a beta, but a fundemental thing like that should be working.

    and the full game better have some female player characters.

    that uncharted tv thing seems like a good idea though.

    • i figured out the aim thing, turns out there were two options, camera, and aim, shows how lacking my observational skill are. ^_^

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